Word: roundness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wicked winds whipped in off the Firth of Clyde for that last round on Troon Old Course. Tee shots curved relentlessly out of line. But from chipping distance to the pin, Beharrell was equal to anything the weather or the links demanded. He one-putted most greens. He never showed a blink of emotion. After he had lost four holes in a row, he came back later to sink a two-foot putt and win. Then he relaxed for an instant. He grabbed his cap and waved his putter aloft in his other hand. "Aye!" he shouted with relief...
...British military help. It could not, because such help would be physically impossible. It is often forgotten that the swift t United Nations intervention in Korea was possible only because the Americans had fully staffed bases in Japan, not more than 200 miles away. The relinquishment of British bases round the Indian Ocean is a more serious matter for the Asian countries than for Britain...
...part of union with Greece will fight back. One night last week a masked gunman entered a coffee shop in the village of Polis, ordered a Turkish Moslem constable to rise, then shot him dead. The murder, which islanders attributed to the underground EOKA terrorists, set off a round of communal fighting. For three days knives flashed and stones flew as Turk fought Greek in ugly little scrimmages all over the island. Scores were hurt. Many Greek-owned shops were wrecked. Crying "civil war," Fazil Kutchuk, leader of the Cyprus-Is-Turkish party, wired Ankara for Turkish government support...
Cyprus' doughty British Governor Sir John Harding also had his own daily round of troubles. From rooftops and balconies terrorists tossed three bombs one morning into the long, narrow Nicosia street that British troops call "murder mile." One soldier was killed, twelve were wounded. When the British closed down 37 shops and evicted 17 families along the street, a crowd of schoolgirls suddenly filled the pavement, shouting "Death to Harding." The girls paraded down the street, defying military police who were patrolling against just such an outbreak...
Little Old Woman. Next afternoon the Armstrong crew held a "cultural exchange" on the Achimota college lawn with some 500 tribesmen, dancers and drummers. After a diplomatic round of palm wine and a furious round of tribal dances, the All-Stars took their turn. Africans received the jazz coolly until Royal Garden Blues stirred them up, and soon 30-odd tribesmen were doing jivey steps to the riffs. "Did you see that little old plump woman?" said Louis later. "When she danced, man, she was just like toy mother Mary...